Dr. Jianbiao (John) Pan is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, CA. After completing a PhD at Lehigh University in Industrial Engineering in 2000, he joined the optoelectronics center at Lucent Technologies/Agere Systems as a member of technical staff. He developed and implemented package manufacturing and assembly processes for the 10G, 20G, and 40G Lithium Niobate modulator, polarization controller, tunable laser, and 40G receiver. He received a M.E degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and a B.E. degree in Mechatronics from Xidian University, Xian, China.

Dr. Pan's research interest lies in environmentally benign microelectronics packaging and reliability including lead-free soldering and LED packaging. His teaching interests include electronics manufacturing, microelectronics and electronic packaging, statistical data analysis, design and analysis of experiment, and CAD/CAM. He is a Fellow of the IMAPS, a Senior Member of the IEEE and of the SME, and a Member of the ASEE.

Dr. Pan is a recipient of the 2004 M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the SME. He is the First Place winner of the IPC’s Worldwide Academic Poster Competition in 2009. He is a Highly Commended Winner of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007. He is also an invitee of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers in Engineering Symposium in 2007.

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Last updated on Oct. 18, 2009 by Jianbiao (John) Pan.